Amazon S3 annotations: attach rich, queryable context directly to your objects

Today, we’re announcing a new metadata capability for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) called annotations, enabling you to attach rich, large-scale business context directly to your objects. You can store up to 1,000 named annotations per object, each up to 1 MB in size, totaling up to 1 GB per object, in flexible formats like JSON, XML, YAML, or plain text. You can modify or delete an annotation at any time, without re-writing your objects, making it easy to keep your object context cu